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A mini-war of words has broken out among the Real Housewives, specifically between Real Housewives of Atlanta’s NeNe Leakes and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville.

It all began when NeNe called Brandi a “train wreck” and mocked her because she said Brandi, “thinks she’s a gangsta” when Leakes appeared on Andy Cohen’s live gabfest, Watch What Happens Live. But it didn’t end there. Glanville picked up the verbal baton and ran with it all the way to the press.

“It doesn’t affect me. She doesn’t even know me…” Glanville told Radaronline.com. “…Get to know me first. Then she can say what she wants about me…” She continued, “…And I am gangsta! Why can’t I be gangsta? Because I’m white skinny and tall?!”

Leakes also reportedly said about Glanville, “ She’s just off the chain, she’s off the hook [with] a lot of things that she has to say, just so talkative.”

Glanville admits to being tipsy the last time she saw NeNe at the Bravo Upfonts in April at 2am. Brandi says there was lots of trash talking but they both were having a good time.  She told Radaronline.com, “I was totally tipsy… we were all just having fun,” Glanville added. “So I said I was gangsta. It’s NeNe… I could care less. I don’t know her.”

But Brandi confessed that watching NeNe ream her on TV has since given her pause on her true feelings about the Housewives franchise highest paying star. “As I was watching the show last night I felt like she was drinking her own Kool-Aid a little too much,” says Glanville about NeNe, whom she thinks could use an ego check. “I do think she was trying to take responsibility for everyone’s success a bit…everyone on the show brings something different and they’re all important roles.”

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If audiences have learned anything from watching reality star turned sitcom actress NeNe Leakes, is that she always tells it like it is.  After several years and seasons of having audiences guess are they together or aren’t they, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star admitted to the CBS gabfest The Talk that she and divorced husband Gregg are reconciling.

“I am not sure if Gregg was ready to see me as his wife out in the forefront, making my own money, doing my own thing,” Leakes told the ladies of The Talk. “That was very difficult for him and I felt like Gregg wasn’t doing all the things that he should be doing as a husband and I decided to divorce Gregg…Yes, we are legally divorced and we were separated for about a year-and-a-half, and now we are back together.”

But just as quick as she admitted she’s reconnected with her husband, it hasn’t stopped The New Normal star from publically admitting her all time biggest celeb crush at a recent event.

“Simon Cowell, I like him. I do,” Leakes told Radaronline.com. “I want him to come around me with a white T-shirt on and I want him to smoke a cigarette.”

Good ‘ole NeNe, I wonder what hubby Gregg thinks about that tidbit of info she shared with the world.

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This week the never-ending battle between NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak moved from Real Housewives of Atlanta to Twitter, this after it was revealed that Kim was leaving the reality series half way through the fifth season.

Radaronline reported that Kim decided to exit the show, saying: “I was eight months pregnant and there was so much drama, I just had to walk.”

But NeNe, wanting to set the record straight on Kim’s departure, hit Twitter exclaiming: “It’s so funny how this chick wants people 2 think she quit the show! The producers no longer wanted 2 work wit [sic] u! Good bye wit the lies.”

And of course Kim would have the last say, responding: “I definitely was NOT fired from RHOA. I can guarantee u that!!! You are so mad u can’t stand it & hold your anger in, u are suppose to have all this stuff going on but ur staying tuned into me.”

“My spinoff last year was a 1 time thing,” Kim concluded, “so this spinoff is brand new! Bye hater! Makes no sense to get fired and get a promotion!”

While fans of the show will be sad to see Kim leave RHOA, they’ll be hoping the tension brewing between Kenya Moore and Cynthia Bailey will fill the viewer’s thirst for conflict.

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The truce that was called between Real Housewives of Atlanta frenemies Kim Zolciak and Nene Leakes during the season four reunion special seems to be shattered, just three episodes into season five.

Kim “Tardy for the Party” Zolciak blogged about her tense confrontation with her former BFF when she attended Leakes’ party. The blonde diva claims she didn’t feel “comfortable, safe or happy” about attending Nene’s party in the first place, but went anyway to give Nene the “benefit of the doubt.”

Well, all doubt has been erased as to whether these two could ever repair their once-strong friendship. “I’ve said this a million times and I stand by it: NeNe is unpredictable!” Kim wrote on her official Bravo blog. “I thought it was very odd and out of the blue she would want me at her event. For all I know, I could have blinked at her the wrong way and ended up in the pool.”

Speaking of pools, Nene called racism on Kim after the mother-of-four cracked a joke that NeNe didn’t need an outdoor pool because, as a Black woman, she can’t tan.  ”Her remarks were racist … no ifs and or buts about it … I don’t like people who talk like that,” NeNe responded.

Those who have been holding out hope that “Kimene” would come back strong might just have to settle for watching reruns from season one. But to ease the pain, we suggest a simple drinking game to accompany your Real Housewives of Atlanta marathon: take a swig every time someone says “I’m done.”

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Praise the genius that came up with this idea: TLC announced that it has partnered with True Entertainment–the production company behind The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Sister Wives–for a new series called Preacher Wives.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the series will not only follow strong-willed Atlanta women as they play out their role as preacher’s wives in the congregation, but also give a view of their home lives and how they balance both roles.

Can I get a hallelujah? Finally, a show worthy of filling the void left in our lives by the season end of RHOA. If PW comes close to the train wreck circus True Entertainment pulled off with it’s other hit shows, I’ll be clearing my prime time schedule in advance.

No premiere date has been set for the series, but us believers will be waiting for it like the Second Coming. If the network airs the show on Sunday mornings, can it count as going to church?

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Tami Roman is facing her third lawsuit this year…and this one’s gonna be a hair puller. After dealing with claims of assault by her former co-star Meeka Claxton and non-payment by a former manager, Tami now has to deal with Constance Corleone, owner of Bella Dream Hair, who has this to say about the reality TV star: b*tch stole my weave!

According to TMZ, in the suit Corleone says Roman asked her for samples of her hair extensions, and shortly after announced plans to launch her own line of fake locks. In case that wasn’t enough to spur on a cat fight, Tami also allegedly used Corleone’s product in her own advertising campaign for her company Curls by Roman.

Tami spoke out about the suit by tweeting, “Fraudulent people trying to take credit NOT.  People trying to take credit for this hair.  WTF they crazy.”

Roman and Corleone are keeping their fight limited to the court room and Twitter (for now), but seriously…if there were ever a time for someone to offer Nene Leakes her own Judge Judy-type show, now would be it. “Whatsa matter? Wig squeezin’ your brain too tight?”

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Cynthia Bailey’s storyline on Real Housewives of Atlanta might be a bit of a snooze compared to her other cast mates,  but her husband Peter Thomas stirred up enough drama for the both of them after running his mouth about the gang in Uptown magazine and he’s back for round two in a follow up interview!

Peter summed up his feelings about the cast in his first interview with Uptown and said, “I can’t stand Phaedra’s ass. I think Kim is crazy as f–k. Nene has a big-ass mouth, okay? And Sheree’s not cute! She thinks she’s cute, but she’s not cute. The only one I like is Kandi, and she’s too soft. That’s why she got played with Kim.” Well damn! The comments didn’t fly with Sheree Whitfield who confronted Peter on the show about his choice words and Phaedra Phark’s husband Apollo also got buck in the name of standing up for his lady, but that didn’t stop Peter from having everyone’s name in his mouth after. Peep the second interview where he elaborates on his first jabs.

On clashing with Apollo:

What people see is what it is. I don’t really know Apollo. Apollo felt like he was defending his wife [regarding] the Uptown  article that I did…the article wasn’t about them. The article was about how I felt about what my wife said and what people were saying about, you know, Uptown Restaurant and Lounge and that she gave me money to do it and I wanted to set the record straight by saying yes she made a contribution but I didn’t take her wallet to do it.

The real problem with Sheree:

She talks about everybody fu–ed up all the time, especially my wife. She said my wife is spineless. She said my wife has no backbone. She said my wife follows around NeNe like some little puppy. She says a lot of really fu–ed up things and my wife is too much of a classy chick to even go in on that so, when they ask me what I think, because me and my wife is one, I’m gone say how I feel. She thinks she’s cute but I don’t think she’s cute. If she thinks she’s cute, then that’s on her. It’s like when I watched [the show Sunday] night and she said ‘well, I know I’m cute’ and my answer was ‘really.’ It didn’t change how I feel. But all of that was at the top of the year. I just saw Sheree recently after the Soul Train Awards. She came through to bar One and maybe she forgave me or I forgave her. We don’t know. Let’s see what happens next.

About NeNe and her mouth:

When I say NeNe is loud, it’s because NeNe got a big ass mouth but I love her. I love her to death. I love her. She’s cool as hell. She’s the realest as far as I’m concerned.

About Kim and her mouth:

When I say Kim is crazy as hell, it’s because her mouth is so reckless. All kinds of sh-t come out of her mouth. I don’t think they have ever shot Kim without beeping, without beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep, because she talks crazy. That’s how she talks.

And there you have it!

Now everybody gets their opinions and I can’t say that Peter’s coming out of nowhere with his, but for someone who has a problem with everyone else running their mouth (and with another husband standing up for his wife as a result), he sure is playing the pot calling the kettle black by doing the same! It’s almost laughable that he’s even meddling in their mayhem at all but I guess one of those guys had to fill the void Dwight left…

Do you think Peter was out of pocket?

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Give a girl a “Trump Check” and some plastic surgery and she loses her mind!

On this season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta Nene Leakes has given viewers a  good laugh after insisting that she’s rich due to the money she raked in from the Celebrity Apprentice. But if you thought her delusions of grandeur were funny on the show, here comes the punch line: she recently announced on Twitter that she’s creating a custom T-shirt line that proclaims “I’m Very Rich Bitch!”

You might remember the “catch phrase” from an argument she had with Sheree during the show’s season premiere, but I’m not buying it. Not the statement or the T-shirt, especially considering she’s told a Twitter follower she plans to sell them for $150!  Yep, you read that right: a hundred and fifty dollars.

Guess she’s got to find some way to come up with nine million for that home she was eying in Miami (still chucking at Kandi’s “new money” shade) that doesn’t include her going back to the pole.

I won’t knock the hustle, but I hope for her sake that she’s able to keep up with the Jones  and stay “very rich” least she have to put her foot in her mouth (by the way if she was going to go there wouldn’t her “I Am The Jones” declaration have been cuter?).

Catch The Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo Sundays at 9/8c and if you can’t wait, tune into see Nene on The Wendy Williams Show today (November 16).

Star Jones has finally formally responded to her Celebrity Apprentice co-star NeNe Leakes.

The two are said to have had serious beef during filming of the Donald Trump–produced series. It’s a beef that has carried over with NeNe recently telling Wendy Williams that she wouldn’t “spit on Star Jones if she was on fire.”

In an interview with Life & Style magazine, Star had this to say about Linnethia:

“I did Celebrity Apprentice to raise money and awareness for a charity [the American Heart Association] that has been instrumental in my life, not to see it reduced to a cliché where Black women attack one another for publicity’s sake. I haven’t commented on any of her comments in hopes that she would remember that we all participated in this show for charity and not as a vehicle to promote ourselves and such hatred. I was clearly wrong and I decided to finally respond.”

Though Star didn’t get specific, it seems NeNe knucked and bucked with multiple women featured on the show. Even worse, things got so heated that Star had to hire security after their verbal fight.

Via Pop Eater: “The televised catfight between Star Jones and NeNe Leakes won’t officially begin until the new season of Celebrity Apprentice premieres March 6, but insiders have already told me that it gets so ugly that Star had to hire her own security detail.”

“NeNe is coming unhinged,” a source close to Star tells me, adding that during taping the Atlanta “Housewife” made La Toya Jackson cry and even got in the face of singing legend Dionne Warwick.”

But it’s her beef with Star that is particularly nasty, my source reveals. “Clearly, she can’t get along with women, especially other black women. She is losing it.”

NeNe, a bit of advice: You don’t want it with Auntie Dionne. Her niece Whitney Houston would clock you into you Season 17 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

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NeNe Leakes, stopped by The Wendy Williams Show yesterday to settle up on several rumors surrounding her love life and standing with the show that made her famous.

In a follow up to previous questions about the status of her marriage, NeNe confirmed that she and Greg Leakes are done.

She told Wendy: “The divorce is pending. I did file for divorce. My happiness is everything.”

She shied away from questions as to whether or not the two are still intimate, but did tell Wendy that Greg “actually just moved out.”

As for Kim Zolciak’s comments that she can’t leave The Real Housewives of Atlanta because they’re all under contract, NeNe said “contracts can be broken.”

As for her co-star Cynthia Bailey and her husband, Peter Thomas, NeNe claims: “They are still together, they’re very much in love. He loves her and she loves him.”

As for her new venture, NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, NeNe disputed rumors that she was acting like a diva.

On talk of being consistently late to set, NeNe quipped, “Everybody has to be there at a certain time so that’s not possible.”

She also was pressed about her relationship with co-star, Star Jones.

NeNe said: “I’m not feeling Star Jones. I gave her a chance when she got there, but Star is a trip. She’s very special. I wouldn’t spit on Star if she was on fire.”

Things are better between her and LaToya Jackson.

“In the beginning we got along, but we had a tip but since then we’ve had a talk. We get a long and we speak all of the time. We definitely keep in contact, I like her a lot,” NeNe explained to Wendy.